Thursday, May 12, 2011
The national tour of The Book of Mormon, the new Broadway musical that recently nabbed 14 Tony Award nominations, including one for Best Musical, will say "Hello!" to Denver audien…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:10PM[SHARE]Annie Potts, who last appeared in the Tony-winning Broadway hit God of Carnage, returns to the Los Angeles stage in Aftermath, which will officially open May 21.
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:20PM[SHARE]Telly Leung, Francis Jue, Erik Liberman and Matthew Wilkas will take part in a workshop of Paper Dolls, a stage adaptation of Tomer Heymann’s award-winning Israeli documentary film, au…
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:30PM[SHARE]Cast members from the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Billy Elliot will stop by the 92YTribeca for a performance and talkback session May 24.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:39PM[SHARE]Producer Sonia Friedman is hoping to bring the Tony Award-nominated Broadway hit The Book of Mormon to London next year, according to the Times of London.
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:04PM[SHARE]The Mint Theater Company production of the Rachel Crothers' 1918 Broadway play, A Little Journey, a poignant comedy about a group traveling by train, begins performances May 12 Off-Broad…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]The Frank Loesser musical Guys and Dolls, starring Daniel C. Levine, Brandon O'Neill, Billie Wildrick and Katherine Strohmaier, begins performances May 12 at the 5th Avenue Theatre in Se…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Theatre people including Chris Jackson, Bill Sherman, Michael Park, Willie Reale, Martin Short and Brian Kerwin are among the 2011 Daytime Emmy Award nominees, which were announced May 11.
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:24PM[SHARE]The national tour of the Tony Award-nominated musical Sister Act will launch at Toronto’s Canon Theatre in fall 2012.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:12PM[SHARE]The National Theatre of Great Britain's production of War Horse will play San Francisco, Dallas, Minneapolis, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia and East Lansing as part of a 20-city U.S. national…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:05PM[SHARE]The original Broadway cast album of Catch Me If You Can, which features a score by Tony Award-winning Hairspray writers Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, will be released digitally May 23 prio…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:58PM[SHARE]The Tenant, the latest work from the New York playwrights collaborative The Woodshed Collective, will premiere this summer with a score by Tony Award-winning Spring Awakening composer Duncan…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:21PM[SHARE]Comedienne, actress and LGBT activist Margaret Cho will receive the 2011 Morris Kight Lifetime Achievement Award during the Los Angeles Pride Celebration in early June.
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:58AM[SHARE]The Public Theater will host two post-performance talkbacks in association with the world premiere of Jonathan Marc Sherman's Knickerbocker, a new play about becoming a father, which wil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:04AM[SHARE]Tony Award-winning actress Patti LuPone makes her New York City Ballet debut May 11 in Kurt Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins — under the direction of Tony nominee Lynne Taylor-Corbett…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]A new musical adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma, penned by Speech and Debate playwright Stephen Karam, tests its legs in New York City beginning May 11 at the Manhattan Professional Perfo…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Three-time Tony Award nominee Kelli O'Hara is joined by Tony winner Ted Sperling for a one-night-only gala concert for St. Ann's Warehouse May 11 in Brooklyn.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar, directed by Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning Next to Normal co-creator Brian Yorkey, begins performances May 11 at the Vil…
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:00AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 10, 2011
The world premieres of Theresa Rebeck's What We're Up Against and Elizabeth Egloff's Ether Dome, and the Off-Broadway musical The Toxic Avenger, from the Tony-winning songwr…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:40PM[SHARE]A world-premiere stage adaptation of William Styron's acclaimed novel Sophie’s Choice, starring Carla Gugino, as well as the new musical February House will play the Long Wharf The…
SOURCE: Playbill at 11:25AM[SHARE]The complete itinerary has been announced for the national tour of the Tony Award-winning musical Memphis, which will launch in its namesake city Oct. 14 at the Orpheum Theatre.
SOURCE: Playbill at 10:40AM[SHARE]Monday, May 9, 2011
Greta Lee and Zoe Winters have been announced to join Tony Award-winning actress Mary Louise Wilson and Gabriel Ebert for the world premiere of Amy Herzog's 4000 Miles, which will premie…
SOURCE: Playbill at 05:25PM[SHARE]The World Science Festival will launch with the premiere of Alan Alda's Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie, with Academy Award-winning actress Meryl Streep in the title role, June 1 at…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:48PM[SHARE]Jamison Stern, Laura Jordan, Farah Alvin and Ian Leonard will set out to write a musical in the TheatreWorks production of [title of show], which will begin performances June 1 at the Mounta…
SOURCE: Playbill at 04:25PM[SHARE]Frank Abagnale, Jr., whose life inspired the Broadway musical Catch Me If You Can, will host a post-show talkback at the Neil Simon Theatre May 12.
SOURCE: Playbill at 03:26PM[SHARE]The National Theatre production of War Horse; the new musical Bring It On!; and Harold Pinter's The Caretaker, starring Tony winner Jonathan Pryce, will play San Francisco as part of the…
SOURCE: Playbill at 02:43PM[SHARE]The Great Immensity, the world-premiere musical by The Civilians' Michael Friedman and Steven Cosson, will debut at the Kansas City Repertory as part of the 2011-2012 season. Also schedu…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:30PM[SHARE]UPDATED! Arthur Laurents, the playwright, director, screenwriter and librettist whose best known works were the musicals West Side Story and Gypsy and the films "The Turning Point"…
SOURCE: Playbill at 01:00PM[SHARE]Tony Award-nominated actress Amy Morton and Trinity Repertory Company founding artistic director Adrian Hall will be honored with the 2011 Pell Awards June 11 in Cranston, CT.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:50PM[SHARE]Darko Tresnjak will succeed Michael Wilson as artistic director of Connecticut's Tony Award-winning Hartford Stage, the organization announced May 9.
SOURCE: Playbill at 12:14PM[SHARE]Bebe Neuwirth and Lee Roy Reams will host the 2011 Fred & Adele Astaire Awards, honoring excellence in dance on Broadway and in film, which will be presented May 15 at the Skirball Cente…
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